NFL Playoff Picks: Super Bowl Finale!

[El Gallo]

The over/under was 48, so the experts expected a fairly high scoring game.  I though the Pats played pretty sloppily, Brady was off all game and their play calling was not so hot.  When they ran the ball with Dillon regularly and played their 8 man zone on defense, they were dominant.  So they decided not to do either of those things very often.  Maybe Romeo has already become afflicted with Browns Suckitis.  I was shocked at Dillon making yardage running outside on sweeps.  I expected the Pats to make some hay running up the middle, where the Eagles are small, but not running outside, where the Eagles are fast.

McNabb was hot and cold.  He made some bad throws, but he also made some incredible throws.  The touchdown where he rifled the ball between two defenders was one of the best passes I have ever seen in my life.  The last touchdown had nice touch too (though WTF were the pats doing playing man to man in that situation?). 

Eags clock management was pure comedy.

On the more important issue, did anyone else think this year's crop of commercials was pretty weak?

[Paelos]

The monkies commercials were pure gold. Other than that, suckage.

[SirBruce]

I dunno; making fun of idiot co-workers is old hat to me.

My favorites were the FedEx Kinkos commercial (Ten things that make a SuperBowl commercial great!), and the Fargo-like Ford Mustang commercial (although did they have to show it, like, four times?).

Bruce

[WayAbvPar]

Good Christ- this looks like I am posting using a spreadsheet. I fear change!

Goddamn that was a boring game. McNabb crapped the bed- he threw some passes that a good high school quarterback would never throw. Also, the commercials were by far the weakest lot I can remember for a Super Bowl.

And one more thing- Gus Hansen is the luckiest man who has ever sat at a poker table.

[Margalis]

Ha ha, damn that Gus Hansen. Not only does he win, but he wins in a way that pissed people off.

I also liked the FedEx commercial. Some of the monkey ones were good. Most of them were awful, and a bunch of them weren't even new.

[HaemishM]

And did someone forget to tell the Eagles that they were in the 4th quarter of the superbowl and down by two scores? Um you might wanna hurry it up a little!

You ain't kidding. That was absolutely horrible two-minute play. It was like they'd never practiced or even discussed the possibility that they'd need to run the two-minute drill. Mosey up to the line, call the play slow as possible. They could have had an extra minute or more of play had they actually managed that effectively.

EDIT: The game wasn't very exciting to me, but it might have been because I was only emotionally invested in seeing T.O.'s leg get snapped in half and him laying on the field shrieking in career-ending pain. Sigh. The commercials were for the most part tepid crap. Some of the most bland, boring, unmemorable pieces of advertising shite ever trotted out. The fact that the only Budweiser commercial worth commenting on was the salute to the troops tells me the ad guys got shit-scared and bailed on the whole Super Bowl thing.

[Dark Vengeance]

BTW, Haemish....just as an FYI, you tallied the records wrong. I was 6-4 over the first 3 weeks.

Luckily, Rasix was the only other 6-4 who picked the Pats, and I was closer on score. So I still won. Just figured I'd do the honest thing and point that out.

Oh, and let Shockeye know he still hasn't got the settings right yet for blacklisting.

Bring the noise.
Cheers.............

[HaemishM]

Fucking math.

[murdoc]

Anyone know what the whole deal is about the NFL not allowing champagne in the Patriots dressing room after the game was over? I mean, c'mon! It's tradition in ANY sport for the champagne to flow in the locker room after the game.

Sometimes the NFL takes it's No Fun League moniker a little too seriously imo.